An unprecedented tremendous force is still keeping Freelance from posting anything on here, which is why she suddenly disappeared as soon as she came back.
We're trying to get her back here, but time zones are a thing, so we're making progress reeeaally slowly. Actually, no progress has been made as of Aug. 22nd 22:34 GMT.
I apologize for letting you know this late. Both to you guys and Freelance.

Now my profile pic for every single Internet account I have features this random meme that died far too quickly, waiting for a picture that really "represents" me.
At least I finally unified all of my accounts; I was still called AxelMill98 on YT.
I also got 7 likes on Facebook, so I'm clearly the happiest person in the world now.

I've seen that name over there before, but never made a possible connection until reading that post above mine. I just changed my name to Atariboy over there a moment ago, so if it is the same Freelance, she may have been wondering just who the heck that was.

I hope she doesn't think she's being stalked, assuming this is the same Freelance.

If this isn't the same Freelance, that's one heck of a coincidence.
I mean, how many people who live in Canada and love the original Star Fox and have an anthropomorphic animal as profile pic and are playing Elminage Original and are called Freelance are there?
Judging from their "Profile" and "Comments" sections in their page, at least.

Maybe she needs to unplug her router to get a new IP address if her current one won't let her post?

She has had this problem for several years, I doubt her router was never turned off even once.
I suggested a similar thing (trying a wi-fi hotspot or using her phone's connection as hotspot), still waiting for results.

It's weird why always freelance the one that can't post...
Remember no symbols or percentages

I was going to say a very funny joke about how this website suddenly hates Canada or something, but Atariboy's still here.Without a profile pic.

AxelMill, Atariboy talks about living near Canada, not in Canada. :) If it were the former, it would be kind of weird to explain his interest in modern American military history.

Honestly, I would give the Kindle Fire a pass. It's underpowered, the Amazon app store is terrible, somehow the advertised 8 gigs is only 5 gigs (3 of which is already used)

Well, you get what you pay for, and it's pretty much the cheapest tablet out there that isn't from some fly-by-night outfit. If I were to get a Fire tablet, though (they dropped the "Kindle" part from the tablet line's name a few years ago, FYI), I think I'd heavily consider an unopened earlier-generation model via eBay, from back when Amazon's tablets cost more. The current Fire 7 is actually a step back from the now-discontinued Fire HD 6, for example; as you can tell from the names, the current model has a lower resolution screen, despite the inch-larger size, and the Fire HD 6 also has a gyroscope that's not in the Fire 7. Presumably, Fire HD 6 still has access to Amazon Underground, too. The main advantage the newer models have is the microSD slot. Oh, and the old Fire HD 7 has stereo speakers, while the current Fire 7 has only one (same as Fire HD 6)--but I think an unopened Fire HD 7 on eBay is a bit pricier than the current Fire 7, while a Fire HD 6 might be had for equal or less.

Incidentally, the product descriptions for Fire tablets do say that the 8-GB models only have 4.5 GB available to the user. The 16-GB models have 11.6 GB available.

whatever it is you call people from New York state that aren't from New York City.

You can't call them "New Yorkers," too?

I just found out today (unless I knew earlier but forgot) that a mobile gaming division at Sony will be making new, mobile-exclusive entries in both the Arc the Lad and Wild ARMs series. :( Not for PlayStation systems, huh. . . .

Speaking of mobile-exclusive entries in console RPG series, it seems I missed the announcement last month that Breath of Fire 6, which is online-only F2P with microtransactions, for PC/Android/iOS, will terminate service on September 27th: http://cog-members.bof6.jp/sp/news/a_529.html . That's only about 17 months after it first opened for PC/Android. Interestingly, they will actually be processing refunds, if I read that right. I guess you kind of have to, if your termination announcement is only 2 months before termination.

We especially hate it when upstate New York is used to reference something like Peekskil, Albany, Saratoga Springs, New Rochelle, etc.

They're all basically in New York City's backyard, yet it's upstate NY to many people outside of the true upstate NY, even though 90 percent of the land mass of the state is north of it. It makes us feel like we're unimportant and an afterthought in the shadows of NYC by having so much of the state lumped into that term.

So you'll hear Northern New York used a lot to describe actual upstate NY by the people that live there (And the Southern Tier is another popular term to reference the portion of the state that separates the two regions). And way up where I am, we use the term North Country to specifically refer to our area of Northern NY along the Canadian border.

Basically, if you draw a line east from the SE corner of Lake Ontario to the Vermont border, the North Country is everything north of the line (like where that prison break happened a couple of years ago that they're now turning into a movie).

I want everyone to know that I am a space ferret. I come...from space. We space ferrets are the cutest beings in the galaxy. We win every single beauty pageant. We also have adorabibble pawz. They are very soft.

I guess people 'ferret proof' their house so their cute pets don't get lost. Don't think you can put them in balls. If people can find cats after they go hiding in nooks and stuff, a ferret shouldn't be any issue.

Every time I get involved with a woman, I remember quickly the peace of not being involved with one. Maybe my personality is just not suited to be around other people. I don't think there's ever been a time I was able to be around people and there not be some huge fallout. Being by yourself sucks after a while, but it sucks less than wondering why you can't seem to play well with others and then feeling like a comic book villain afterwards.

I don't have that happen, but mine always seem to follow the same pattern. Hit it off really well for like a month, then they seemingly start to lose interest and I try to be more and more interesting or desperately try to keep them interested, only to just accelerate the process by acting overwrought so I get dumped right around the 3 month mark.

Sadly, stuff like Friskies Party Mix are addicting, so they don't get those anymore.

My sister had a cat that decided she wanted to live off those. When Tiger in my user picture decided after getting some for Christmas that this was the only thing he wanted to ever eat again, the bag went in the trash. He complained for a day or so and didn't eat, but broke down when he got hungry enough and started eating his food again.

But they do like people food for treats and it doesn't seem to have the addicting quality that cat treats do.

I get involved with neither cats nor women. No Catwomen, either. At least not since the last time Selina and I broke up.

There's a flash sale going on this weekend in the NA PS Store, and it might be time for me to finally get the NA release of DariusBurst Chronicle Saviours. It's a mere $8, and each DLC bundle is $6, half their normal price. However, I definitely can't budget for all 5 of the DLC bundles (Taito, Sega, Capcom, Cave, Eighting) even at $6 apiece. Any recommendations, AxelMill?

I think I'll also finally be getting Cho Aniki Zero, which is part of the sale at $2.39. Lots of other Aksys games are in the sale as well, and Square Enix (including Taito), Natsume, and Konami all have quite a few games in the sale selection. Off the top of my head, I remember Suikoden I-III, two Castlevanias, two Bombermans, Gradius V, two or more Harvest Moons, both of the Natsume-published Kemco mobile RPGs ported to PSP, two Reel Fishings, both PSP Dissidias, FFXIII-2 and FFXIII-3, and Elevator Action Deluxe. Also, UFO Interactive kind of went overboard, with a pair of under-$2 PSP games.

Earlier this evening, I was at a Target store and decided to put their sole remaining Ms. Pac-Man-packaged Funko Retro Video Games Mystery Mini into my cart. Before doing so, I shook it repeatedly in all three axes, trying to figure out whether it were Ms. Pac-Man in the box or Pinky (the series has only these two Ms. Pac-Man characters). All I could ascertain was that the figure inside had less movement on the horizontal axis than the other two; that could match both characters, based on the pictures on the back of the box. I threw caution to the wind and bought it. Upon getting back home, I opened up the box and . . . it was the Ms.! :) So now I have all the characters in this figure series that I want, Centipede, Pooka, and Ms. Pac-Man. The other figures are Pac-Man, Blinky, Pinky, Q*bert, Coily, Mega Man, Frogger, Dig Dug, and Fygar.

I want everyone to know that I am a space ferret.

Sadly, that is news to 0 of us, as we haven't had any new people join the forum since you went on hiatus. Good to know that you haven't been converted into Space Cobra, though.

- 2017/08/27 GMT

P.S. No comments on the sudden death of Breath of Fire 6? Snarky or otherwise?

Never cared for Breath of Fire. I tried 4 on PSP once, but got bored an hour later. It was just a bog-standard RPG, which there's literally hundreds of them.
I guess you could say that fire was short-lived.

Yeah, that's my joke.

Any recommendations, AxelMill?

Didn't buy any. I don't care much for a bunch of new ships if you only play through the same levels and fight the same bosses, especially when there's this much content in the base game. A completionist like you will take more than a hundred hours to finish CS mode alone if you're that good at shmups, and then there's the infinitely replayable AC mode as well as the 2000+ stages in Chronicle mode (which work just like CS and DLC levels: various remixes of Zones and bosses).
If you really want to buy one because the price is so tempting, there's a long-running and very informative shmup review series called Bullet Heaven on Youtube, and they reviewed each and every DBCS DLC bundle, in this order:
- Taito (https://youtu.be/GQ3t7SpUR_8)
- Sega (https://youtu.be/e8XA0rR9TB0)
- Cave (https://youtu.be/cqgTnINMc0Q)
- Eighting (https://youtu.be/mv2UsL0C5tA)
- Capcom (https://youtu.be/yPKNJ8WstCA)

It's not just cat treats. The first cat I owned wouldn't eat cat food, so I ended up giving her cocktail shrimp. So I ended up having to feed her that for most of her life. Until I got a second cat and gave him cat food and suddenly she decided she wanted that, too. OTOH, that second cat, every time I would have turkey would magically appear to beg some.

The problem with cats though is contrary to what people say about them, they are too demanding. Especially wanting attention. Like my indoor cat wants to sit in my lap all the time. I go outside, I have two cats wanting to sit in my lap all the time.

At least with dogs, they're happy to spend 90 percent of their time barking or looking for things to bark at. Unless you have mice, cats pretty much expect you to entertain them.

And I haven't played a Breath of Fire game since II on the SNES. I don't think the series translated to the 3d era well.

I've been staying on that house on the mountains since Wednesday.
This town used to be my safe haven: silent peace was the key word. I couldn't wait to get here and relax a little before September arrives, with all of its uncertainties.

...Now there are more teenagers I want to hide from here than in my school.
I mean, I'd be all for running into so many fine girls my age if "running into" wasn't all that could ever happen and if my self-esteem wasn't inversely proportional to my hormones.

I don't think that show has been on a few years now. Anthony was replaced with Jim Norton and then I think it was eventually cancelled.

And I feel your pain Axel. I wish I could say it gets easier. In fact it possibly gets more depressing since the older you get, the more you get completely ignored and while the hormones ease up a little, it's only a little.. .

Although, and this seriously creeps me out when I think about it, but somehow my great uncle was somehow successfully hitting on teen aged girls int o his 60s. And he was not good looking or educated or employed. In fact, if you remember the story about my first car and how I got it really cheap because someone killed themselves in it and also it was a Chevy Citation. Well, after I got my 2nd car, I gave that car to him. Which he promptly spray painted blue for some reason.

What's also depressing is despite him, that's still the more reputable side of my father's family. I'm not supposed to mention I'm even a member of the other branch since they have a notorious reputation.